Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . \ u. •N- .O WILLIAM MAKKPKACL TIIACKIRAV. 1811— Mr. Thackeray had seen much of life, and had tasted deeplyof its bitterness. He that has not watered his daily bread withhis tears, how can he hope to touch the heart. says Gothc,that great German with whom the author of Vanity Fair hadonce conversed. Cheated out of large sums of money ; then apoor artist in Paris ; for a long time a struggling and compara-tively unknown writer, Thackeray had, note by note
Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . \ u. •N- .O WILLIAM MAKKPKACL TIIACKIRAV. 1811— Mr. Thackeray had seen much of life, and had tasted deeplyof its bitterness. He that has not watered his daily bread withhis tears, how can he hope to touch the heart. says Gothc,that great German with whom the author of Vanity Fair hadonce conversed. Cheated out of large sums of money ; then apoor artist in Paris ; for a long time a struggling and compara-tively unknown writer, Thackeray had, note by note, passedthrough the whole gamut of fortune. At first cynical and em-bittered, cramped and chilled by the frost of hard times, this greatwriter mellowed and expanded in the sunshine of his later years,and though always rather ruthless against the female character,savage with social humbugs, and especially hostile to Irishmen,he began latterly to take delight in painting such amiable andsimple men as Colonel Newcombe ; his genius grew moreAddisonian as it ripened, but to the last he was never very suc-cessful in uniting in h
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